Please note that the Change Log only lists which editor was responsible for putting the changes into SVN; please read the Credits page in Chapter 1 for details on who wrote what.
Current release: 6.3 – August 24th, 2008
Changelog Entries:
August 24th, 2008
[randy] - Fixed a broken URL for the libpcap package.
[randy] - Fixed a broken URL for the Libassuan package.
[randy] - Fixed a broken URL for the GnuPG2 package.
[randy] - Fixed a broken URL for the GnuPG package.
[randy] - Fixed a broken URL for the libidn package.
August 17th, 2008
[randy] - Modified the sudo instructions so the Linux-PAM configuration file is correct. Thanks to Jeremy Henty for the report.
August 15th, 2008
[thomas] - Added a command to create a missing test data file in the CrackLib instructions so that 'make test' works.
August 11th, 2008
[randy] - Added some text to the AutoFS instructions pointing out that the wget package must be installed. Thanks to Leonhard Landrock for the report.
[randy] - Changed the location of the Stunnel patch due to upstream's removing it. Thanks to Brian Cade for the report.
[randy] - Added parameters to the Pin Entry instructions so the configuration process won't fail if the optional dependencies are not installed. Thanks to Brian Cade for the report.
[randy] - Fixed broken Thunderbird download URL.
[randy] - Fixed broken rsync download URL.
[randy] - Fixed broken Whois download URL.
August 10th, 2008
[randy] - Updated the PAR-Dist Perl module to 0.31.
[randy] - Updated the Text-CSV_XS Perl module to 0.52.
Aug 1st, 2008
[thomas] - Fix net-tools download location.
July 12th, 2008
[ken] - Updated security_fixes patch for poppler-0.5.4.
[ken] - Updated security_fixes patch for fetchmail-6.3.8.
[ken] - Updated firefox to 2.0.0.15 to fix another batch of vulnerabilities.
July 9th, 2008
[ken] - Updated freetype to 2.3.7 (bugfixes on top of the vulnerability fixes).
[ken] - Updated libpng to 1.2.29 (bugfixes on top of the vulnerability fixes).
[ken] - Added security patch to libvorbis.
July 8th, 2008
[ken] - Added security patch to pcre.
June 27th, 2008
[dj] - Corrected warning in shadow instructions to add the --without-pam switch instead of replace.
June 25th, 2008
[dj] - Removed Xorg-Data page and replaced with remaining xcursor-themes package.
June 19th, 2008
[dj] - Corrected text surrounding the sample commands Xorg installation.
[dj] - Added libXdmcp to Xorg Libraries required dependendcies.
[dj] - Accounted for additional path depth in Xorg Libraries patch commands. Reported by Philipp Christian Loewner.
June 9th, 2008
[alexander] - Fixed typos on the PPP page.
June 6th, 2008
[thomas] - Update to new Samba version 3.0.30.
May 24th, 2008
[dj] - Completed removal of xorg proxy packages.
[dj] - Fixed pam_xauth.so module name in /etc/pam.s/su. Reported by Guy Dalziel.
May 16th, 2008
[randy] - Modified the akode tarball download URL in the kdemultimedia instructions to a wget-friendly name.
[randy] - Added a download URL and a command to install the akode patch for experimental FFmpeg support in the kdemultimedia instructions.
May 15th, 2008
[dnicholson] - Fix the Linux-PAM tarball md5sum and size. Thanks to Toni for the report.
[rdaniels] - Added --without-ffmpeg to Akode instructions to prevent compilation errors from building Akode with FFmpeg support.
May 14th, 2008
[randy] - Added a patch to the rxvt-unicode instructions to fix a security vulnerability and changed the download URL to a more consistent location.
May 12th, 2008
[randy] - Released BLFS-6.3-rc1.
[dj] - Removed JDK source installation instructions because of unavailable security patches.
May 10th, 2008
[randy] - Fixed broken download URLs in various package instructions.
[randy] - Updated various Perl Modules: Business-ISBN-Data-1.17, DateManip-5.54, IO-Zlib-1.09, Text-CSV-1.05 (was Text-CSV_PP), Text-CSV_XS-0.45, version-0.74 and XML-Simple-2.18.
[randy] - Updated to ImageMagick-6.3.5-10.
May 9th, 2008
[dnicholson] - Fixed libXfont to work with newer versions of FreeType2.
[randy] - Updated to rsync-3.0.2.
[dj] - Updated to sudo-1.6.9p15.
[dj] - Correted incorrect variable in precompiled JDK instructions.
May 7th, 2008
[dj] - Completed cleanup for /etc/X11 changes and /usr/X11R6 removal.
[thomas] - Fix download location of shadow.
May 6th, 2008
[dj] - Removed (commented) more XFree86 related text.
[dj] - Changed jdk symlink to use precompiled version and other text cleanups in jdk page.
[thomas] - Updated to QT-3.3.8b.
May 4th, 2008
[ken] - Updated firefox to 2.0.0.14.
May 3rd, 2008
[dj] - Commented out remaining text related to XFree86.
May 1st, 2008
[dj] - Corrected location of Xorg config files for FHS compliance.
[dj] - Corrected commands for lesstif and xvt-unicode relating to the Xorg config files. Thanks to Alexander Patrakov for finding these.
April 30th, 2008
[randy] - Added missing patch commands to the Heimdal instructions.
April 26th, 2008
[randy] - Removed an unnecessary sed command from the Ed instructions.
April 25th, 2008
[dnicholson] - Update to xkeyboard-config-1.2.
April 23rd, 2008
[bdubbs] - Updated to mpg123-1.4.2.
[bdubbs] - Ensure /etc/X11/app-defaults exists in rxvt-unicode.
[bdubbs] - Updated to xine-lib-1.1.12.
April 22nd, 2008
[dnicholson] - Fix multiple security vulnerabilities in xorg-server, libXfont and xfs for Xorg-7.2.
April 21st, 2008
[bdubbs] - Update to seamonkey 1.1.9.
[dnicholson] - Bug fixes and automatic compression support from Lars Bamberger for the compressdoc script.
April 20th, 2008
[bdubbs] - Update to Tripwire-2.4.1.2.
April 14th, 2008
[bdubbs] - Add 2nd security patch to unzip. Also moved locale patch to BLFS repository.
[bdubbs] - Add optional dependencies to autofs.
April 13th, 2008
[ken] - Update the cups security_fixes patch.
April 11th, 2008
[bdubbs] - Updated to dhcp-3.0.6.
[randy] - Added a comment to the Tcsh page mentioning that one of the tests in the testsuite is known to fail.
[alexander] - Removed the obsolete libxml1 library.
April 10th, 2008
[randy] - Updated to Whois-4.7.26.
April 9th, 2008
[randy] - Updated to Tk-8.4.18.
[randy] - Updated to Tcl-8.4.18.
[dj] - Updated OpenOffice instructions with changes suggested by Randy McMurchy and Chris Staub.
[dj] - Corrected OpenOffice build failure when GMime is installed. Thanks to Alessandro Alocci for tracking down the cause of the build failure.
[randy] - Clarified the GMP documentation installation.
April 6th, 2008
[ag] - Updated to zsh-4.3.6.
April 5th, 2008
[ag] - Added a command to regenerate the tags file in vim when updating the runtime files.
[ag] - Added a sed to the ed instructions to replace with symbolic links the hard links to red and its man page.
April 4th, 2008
[richard] - updated to a2ps-4.14.
April 3rd, 2008
[cwurst] - Changed download location of gimp-help. Fixes #2503.
April 2nd, 2008
[randy] - Updated to Which-2.19.
April 1st, 2008
[ken] - Updated xine-lib to 1.1.11.1.
[thomas] - Updates on adding users to groups. Avoid destroying group assignments in usermod commands without -a option
[richard] - Added gperf-3.0.3 to General Utilities. Required for a2ps-4.14.
March 31st, 2008
[rdaniels] - Updated dependencies for all KDE packages.
[richard] - Commented Dillo-0.8.5 out of the book.
[ken] - Added patch for xpdf to fix vulnerabilities.
[ken] - Updated to gnumeric-1.8.2.
March 28th, 2008
[ken] - Updated to cups-1.2.12 with a patch for the vulnerabilities.
[ken] - Updated a patch to fix vulnerabilities in poppler-0.5.4.
March 27th, 2008
[ken] - Updated to firefox-2.0.0.13.
[rdaniels] - Added parameters to xine-lib and xine-ui instructions to place documentation in versioned directories.
[richard] - Updated to Bluefish-1.0.7.
March 26th, 2008
[bdubbs] - Expanded the discussion on autofs configuration.
[cwurst] - Added build instructions for UnRar. Fixes #2345.
[ag] - Added a sed to Tcl/Tk instructions. Fixes #2487.
[randy] - Updated to Stunnel-4.21.
[randy] - Added a parameter to the libgnome configure command to account for ESounD may not be installed.
March 25th, 2008
[randy] - Added a patch to the ESP Ghostscript instructions to fix a buffer overflow vulnerability. Thanks to Alexander for finding it.
[randy] - Modified a documentation installation command in the Python instructions so ownership of installed files is correct.
March 24th, 2008
[randy] - Added a note to the Berkeley DB instructions about the JDK-6 and GMime uudecode conflict.
[dj] - Added a caution to the xfs-progs page and pointed the download location to the anduin server.
March 23rd, 2008
[Chris] - Added kernel configuration information to CUPS page. Fixes ticket #2430.
[dj] - Updated to xfs-progs-2.9.7.
March 22nd, 2008
[dj] - Updated to Apache httpd-2.2.8.
[randy] - Updated to SeaMonkey-1.1.8.
[dj] - Added enable-tlsext option for SNI to the OpenSSL command explanations section.
[randy] - Added the libedit package as a dependency of OpenSSH which provides sftp command-line history.
[randy] - Updated to rsync-3.0.0.
[randy] - Updated to Heimdal-1.1. Removed the Heimdal-Cracklib patches from both packages as Heimdal has been converted to use Cracklib differently. Created a patch to change the names of some installed files so they don't conflict with the E2fsprogs package.
March 20th, 2008
[thomas] - Added page in chapter 16 about NFS client tools. Upgrade to nfs-utils-1.1.2 and change the download location.
March 18th, 2008
[alexander] - Removed WvDial, WvStreams and RP-PPPoE, as alternative instructions are available on the PPP page. Moved the remaining packages from the Connecting to a Network part to a chapter with the same name in the Basic Networking part.
March 17th, 2008
[randy] - Updated to Python-2.5.2.
[alexander] - Removed xfsprogs-2.9.6, as they are incompatible with the LFS-6.3 kernel.
[alexander] - Updated MCS to version 0.7.0.
[alexander] - Added Mowgli-0.6.1.
March 16th, 2008
[ken] - Corrected the download locations for goffice.
[ag] - Added header caching support in mutt. Added qdbm as optional dependency.
[alexander] - Fixed URL for Audacious third-party plugins.
[alexander] - Noted that mpeg4ip is a dead project.
March 15th, 2008
[randy] - Updated GNOME Games to reflect the GNOME-2.18.3 update. This completes all the current GNOME packages currently in the book.
[alexander] - Added PPPoE configuration instructions to the PPP page.
[randy] - Updated Ekiga to reflect the GNOME-2.18.3 update.
March 14th, 2008
[ken] - Updated to gnucash-2.2.4.
[randy] - Updated Epiphany to reflect the GNOME-2.18.3 update.
[randy] - Updated File Roller, gcalctool, GNOME Keyring Manager, GNOME Netstatus and GNOME System Monitor to reflect the GNOME-2.18.3 update.
March 13th, 2008
[randy] - Removed (commented out) the Galeon package as it requires an older version of a Gecko engine than what is in the book. Currently, it fails to build. Will add it back to the book when/if it supports modern Gecko.
[randy] - Updated to Vorbis Tools-1.2.0.
[rdaniels] - Updated to xine-ui-0.99.5. Fixed ftp link for xine-lib.
[rdaniels] - Updated to xine-lib-1.1.10.1. Removed obsolete note from xine-lib page regarding --with-xv-path.
March 12th, 2008
[dnicholson] - Add pidfile directive to ntp.conf.
[rdaniels] - Updated to gmp-4.2.2.
[randy] - Updated to libgtkhtml-2.11.1.
[randy] - Updated the Heimdal instructions to preserve the mk_cmds script from the e2fsprogs package. Thanks DJ.
[randy] - Updated to S-Lang-2.1.3.
[randy] - Updated the SLIB download URL.
[alexander] - Added dialup and GPRS configuration instructions to the PPP page.
[dj] - Updated to OpenLDAP-2.3.39.
[dj] - Updated to Postfix-2.5.1.
[rdaniels] - Updated to Nano-2.0.7.
March 11th, 2008
[alexander] - Updated to Tin-1.8.3.
[alexander] - Mentioned the locale issue with the built-in editor in Lynx, and made cookies persistent.
[alexander] - Changed Lynx download URL in order to avoid MD5 sum changes in the future.
[alexander] - Reworded explanations and verified dependencies on the Links page.
[randy] - Updated to paps-0.6.8.
[randy] - Removed an obsolete sed command from the GNOME Doc Utils instructions.
[rdaniels] - Updated to K3b-1.0.4.
[rdaniels] - Updated to KOffice-1.6.3. Changed dependency from PostgreSQL to libpqxx. Use kde-config to set --prefix.
March 10th, 2008
[randy] - Updated the Enigmail download URLs to proper locations in the Thunderbird and Seamonkey instructions.
[randy] - Updated to Thunderbird-2.0.0.12 with Enigmail-0.95.6.
[ken] - Add missing goffice dependency.
[randy] - Updated to libxslt-1.1.22.
[rdaniels] - Updated to KDE-3.5.9.
March 9th, 2008
[ken] - Updated to gnumeric-1.8.1, with goffice-0.6.1, libgsf-1.14.7, and warning that gnucash-2.2.0 needs an older version of goffice.
[dj] - Updated to gamin-0.1.9.
[ken] - Updated to firefox-2.0.0.12.
[ken] - Updated to cairo-1.4.14.
[dj] - Updated to ksh-2008-02-02.
[dj] - Added iproute2 patch for bind, corrected L.ROOT-SERVERS.NET IP address, and added -r /dev/urandom to rdnc-confgen command.
[randy] - Updated to libxml2-2.6.31.
[dj] - Updated to JDK-6u5 and added warning about trailing JRL releases and security vulnerabilities.
March 8th, 2008
[bdubbs] - Udated to autofs-5.0.3. Expanded explanation of the use of autofs and created a procedure to automatically download and apply all patches.
[ag] - Added a patch and a configuration item to fix the UTF-8 related issues in Links. Thanks to Alexander Patrakov for the suggestions.
[bdubbs] - Fixed problem with netfs bootscript boot procedure.
[randy] - Updated to Balsa-2.3.22.
[thomas] - Updated to portmap-6.0 and nfs-utils-1.1.1
March 7th, 2008
[ag] - Updated to pcre-7.6. Added the --enable-pcregrep-libbz2 and --enable-pcregrep-libz switches. Added in command explanations the --enable-unicode-properties switch. Added patch to fix ABI breakage.
[randy] - Added new package GnuPG-2.0.8.
[bdubbs] - Fixed autofs bootscript.
[rdaniels] - Added new package Amarok-1.4.8.
March 6th, 2008
[bdubbs] - Added Qt4.
March 5th, 2008
[ag] - Updated to zsh-4.3.5. Added libcap as an optional dependency and enabled the --bindir=/bin switch.
March 4th, 2008
[dj] - Updated broken cracklib-heimdal patch.
March 3rd, 2008
[ken] - Updated to libpng-1.2.24, thanks to Hendrik Hoeth.
March 2nd, 2008
[ag] - Fixed two broken links in MPlayer page. Reported by habiloid.
February 26th, 2008
[ag] - Updated to links-2.1pre33. Enables graphics support by default.
February 25th, 2008
[tushar] - Add a note about LDFLAGS for BBLFS section.
[ag] - Added a switch to the OpenSSH instructions to set the default path for xauth.
February 24th, 2008
[ag] - Updated vim with the latest upstream patches. Added a command to update the runtime files.
[dj] - Updated to Linux-PAM-0.99.10.0.
February 22nd, 2008
[dj] - Updated to cracklib-2.8.12.
February 21st, 2008
[dj] - Updated to xfsprogs-2.9.6.
February 19th, 2008
[dj] - Added note about OpenSSH testsuite failures.
February 13th, 2008
[dj] - Updated to openssh-4.7p1.
[dj] - Updated to whois-4.7.24 (Christian Wurst).
February 11th, 2008
[ag] - Updated to rxvt-unicode-9.02. Added libAfterImage as an optional dependency.
[dj] - Updated to openssl-0.9.8g.
February 6th, 2008
[dj] - Updated to sudo-1.6.9p12.
February 5th, 2008
[bdubbs] - Removed XFree86.
January 21st, 2008
[randy] - Updated to Libassuan-1.0.4.
January 20th, 2008
[alexander] - Configured the Backspace key in xterm, updated program descriptions, updated xterm to version 231.
January 19th, 2008
[alexander] - Added FAAC and FAAD2.
January 10th, 2008
[randy] - Corrected a chmod command in the BIND instructions.
December 29th, 2007
[dj] - Added --without-pam switch to OpenOffice installation instructions. Reported by Nathan Coulson.
December 28th, 2007
[ag] - Added a documentation link to the procmail page.
December 22nd, 2007
[ag] - Updated to Ruby-1.8.6-p111.
December 21st, 2007
[dnicholson] - Updated the bootscripts tarball to include fixes for dhcp, gdm, gpm, hal, ntp, dbus and samba.
[alexander] - Updated the text about default mount options on the HAL page.
December 19th, 2007
[dj] - Updated to OpenOffice-2.3.1.
December 17th, 2007
[alexander] - Dropped Imlib-1.9.15.
[dj] - Updated to JDK-6 Update 3.
December 16th, 2007
[alexander] - Moved the URI Perl module under a separate heading, to simplify cross-references.
December 15th, 2007
[ag] - Updated to XFS 2.9.4. Thanks to Christian Wurst for his patch.
December 14th, 2007
[ag] - Updated to Mutt-1.5.17. Added command to generate the manual in PDF format.
December 13th, 2007
[ag] - Fixed Ruby download link.
[ag] - Updated to Flac-1.2.1.
December 7th, 2007
[alexander] - Updated to Xfce-4.4.2 and commented it out.
November 22nd, 2007
[ag] - Fixed the download link to rxvt-unicode.
[ag] - Updated to Compface 2.5.2.
November 17th, 2007
[ag] - Fixed a broken link to the Python documentation. Reported by Moody.
[ag] - Added a switch in the 'Command Explanations' section of the Vorbis Tools page that allows ogg123 to be built without cURL. Reported by laxy. Fixes #2413.
November 5th, 2007
[dnicholson] - Really fix luit to find the locale.alias file. Caught by laxy. Fixes #2414.
November 4th, 2007
[ag] - Updated to rxvt-unicode-8.4.
[ag] - Updated to libvorbis-1.2.0.
November 2nd, 2007
[dnicholson] - Fix luit to find the locale.alias file. Fixes #2393.
[dnicholson] - Updated to Nano-2.0.6.
November 1st, 2007
[ag] - Updated to ed-0.8.
[ag] - Updated to Fcron-3.0.3.
October 16th, 2007
[randy] - Updated to Heimdal-0.8.1.
[randy] - Modified the 'Configuring for Adding Users' page to reflect that the /etc/default/useradd file is now created in LFS. Thanks to Chris Staub for the suggestion.
[randy] - Fixed numerous typos and ommisions, along with several corrections by applying patches from Chris Staub. Thanks, Chris.
[randy] - Updated the Evince instructions to reflect the GNOME-2.18.3 update.
September 22nd, 2007
[randy] - Fixed an incorrect installation command in the XSL Stylesheets instructions, thanks to Frank Ianella for pointing it out.
September 12th, 2007
[randy] - Updated the EOG instructions to reflect the GNOME-2.18.3 update.
September 11, 2007
[randy] - Added a note to the Totem instructions explaining that the GStreamer backend will not play DVDs properly, and you can use the Xine Libraries backend instead.
September 10th, 2007
[randy] - Added a more accurate explanation of the GConf dependency in the GStreamer Good Plugins instructions.
September 9th, 2007
[manuel] - Updated the internal XSL Stylesheets to 1.73.2.
September 7th, 2007
[randy] - Changed the chmod command in the OpenLDAP instructions to use the 'readlink' command to find out the names of the shared libraries.
September 6th, 2007
[randy] - Modified the Heimdal instructions which move the libraries into /lib to use the 'readlink' command to create the symlinks so that the instructions are not version specific.
September 5th, 2007
[randy] - Modified the Linux-PAM instructions to install the libraries into /lib and then use the 'readlink' command to create the symlinks so that the instructions are not version specific.
September 4th, 2007
[dnicholson] - Removed an unnecessary command in the Cyrus SASL instructions.
September 2nd, 2007
[dnicholson] - Updated to Cyrus SASL-2.1.22.
August 22nd, 2007
[dj] - Updated to dhcpcd-3.0.19.
August 21st, 2007
[djensen] - Removed a Makefile sed that disabled autoconf in XFS-2.9.3. It will be needed with some libtool versions.
August 20th , 2007
[djensen] - Updated to XFS-2.9.3.
[dj] - Added GCC-3.3.6 as a runtime dependency for the binary JDK.
August 19th, 2007
[randy] - Added new package PIN-Entry-0.7.3.
August 18th, 2007
[randy] - Updated to DocBook XSL Stylesheets-1.71.1.
[randy] - Added new package Libksba-1.0.2.
August 17th, 2007
[randy] - Updated to Transcode-1.0.3.
[randy] - Applied a patch contributed by Jeremy Henty that updated the book to Emacs-22.1. Thanks Jeremy!
[randy] - Updated to libquicktime-1.0.0.
[randy] - Updated to libmpeg3-1.7.
[dj] - Updated to OpenOffice-2.2.1
August 16th, 2007
[randy] - Added new package GnuTLS-1.6.3.
[manuel] - Added upstream asmrules_fix_20061231.diff patch to Mplayer-1.0rc1.
[randy] - Added new package Libgcrypt-1.2.4.
[randy] - Added new package Libgpg-error-1.5.
[randy] - Added new package Libassuan-1.0.2.
[randy] - Added new package Pth-2.0.7.
August 15th, 2007
[randy] - Updated Gaim to Pidgin-2.1.0.
[randy] - Removed an unneeded sed command from the RP-PPPoE instructions.
[randy] - Updated to Audacious-1.3.2.
August 14th, 2007
[randy] - Added new package mcs-0.4.1 to support recent versions of Audacious.
[randy] - Updated to Hdparm-7.7.
[randy] - Updated to Hd2u-1.0.1.
[randy] - Updated to Exim-4.67.
August 13th, 2007
[randy] - Updated to Cdrdao-1.2.2.
[randy] - Updated the Sound Juicer instructions to reflect the GNOME-2.18.3 update.
[randy] - Updated to libmusicbrainz-2.1.5.
August 12th, 2007
[dnicholson] - Added the Python Modules page with Gnome-Python and its dependencies.
[randy] - Added instructions to create an X11R6 symlink to the X Windows Components page.
[dj] - Updated to JDK-6 Update 2.
August 11th, 2007
[randy] - Updated the GConf Editor instructions to reflect the GNOME-2.18.3 update.
[randy] - Added a note to the FreeGlut instructions saying you don't need to install it if you installed the GLUT library during a MesaLib installation.
[randy] - Updated to MPlayer-1.0rc1.
[randy] - Updated to FFmpeg-svn_20070606 (svn checkout).
August 9th, 2007
[randy] - Replaced the obsolete Gimp-Print package with Gutenprint-5.0.1.
August 8th, 2007
[randy] - Updated to XChat-2.8.4.
[randy] - Updated all the GNOME Assistive Technology (Accessibility) packages to GNOME-2.18 versions, including updating Gnome Speech to 0.4.16.
[randy] - Added new package Orca-2.18.1 as a replacement for the obsolete Gnopernicus package.
[randy] - Replaced all instances of the Gtk+-2 library directory pathname with an entity.
[randy] - Replaced all instances of the Python library directory pathname with an entity.
[randy] - Simplified some commands using conditionals in various package instructions.
[randy] - Added a parameter to the configure command in the GNOME Session instructions so that the Assistive Technology (Accessibility) packages work properly.
August 7th, 2007
[randy] - Added notes to the AbiWord and Gnumeric instructions that the versions of libgda/libgnomedb will conflict with each other.
[randy] - Minor modifications to the Gnumeric build instructions.
[randy] - Updated to AbiWord-2.4.6.
August 6th, 2007
[randy] - Updated to FriBidi-0.10.8.
August 5th, 2007
[randy] - Updated to Finance::Quote-1.13.
[dnicholson] - Updated to Thunderbird-2.0.0.6 with Enigmail-0.95.3.
[dnicholson] - Updated to Firefox-2.0.0.6.
[randy] - Updated to GnuCash-2.2.0.
August 3rd, 2007
[ag] - Updated to Fetchmail-6.3.8.
[randy] - Updated to GOffice-0.4.2.
[randy] - Updated to SLIB-3a4.
[randy] - Updated to Guile-1.8.2. This breaks the GnuCash package instructions and since no other BLFS packages depend on the GNOME-1.4 libraries, the entire GNOME-1.4 section of the book has been commented out.
August 2nd, 2007
[ag] - Added the rxvt-unicode terminal emulator package.
[dnicholson] - Updated to NcFTP-3.2.1.
[randy] - Updated to gedit-2.18.2.
[dnicholson] - Updated to Iptables-1.3.8.
[dnicholson] - Updated the libusb udev rule for raw USB device ownership to work with Linux-2.6.22.
August 1st, 2007
[ag] - Updated to ReiserFS-3.6.20.
July 31st, 2007
[ag] - Removed obsolete text in the X Window System Components page.
[ag] - Updated to Dash-0.5.4. Fixes Trac ticket #2366.
July 30th, 2007
[ag] - Removed the extra-prompt.sh script and avoid exporting the PS1 variable. Thanks to David Jensen for the suggestions and to Craig Jackson for the report.
[ag] - Added a warning in the mutt instructions about linking mutt against GnuTLS.
[ag] - Added a consolidated patch to vim instructions, with fixes from upstream. Syncing with LFS.
July 27th, 2007
[randy] - Added the D-Bus GLib bindings as a required dependency of GNOME VFS and removed it from other packages where it became redundant.
[randy] - Updated to XSane-0.994.
[randy] - Updated to ksh-2007-06-28.
[randy] - Updated Perl Modules: Finance::QuoteHist-1.11, HTML::TableExtract-2.10.
[randy] - Added a patch to the Avifile instructions to correct a build problem when using GCC-4.1.x. Thanks to Robert Connolly for submitting the patch.
July 26th, 2007
[randy] - Updated to rsync-2.6.9.
[randy] - Updated some GNOME utility packages: GDM-2.18.3, GNOME Utilities-2.18.1, gnome-screensaver-2.18.2, zenity-2.18.2.
[randy] - Updated to XScreenSaver-5.03.
[randy] - Updated several package's broken download URLs.
[randy] - Updated to gnome-volume-manager-2.17.0.
July 25th, 2007
[randy] - Updated to Evolution-2.10.3.
[randy] - Updated to Xine Libraries-1.1.7.
[randy] - Updated some of the GNOME-2 additional packages ('Utilities') to GNOME-2.18.3: bug-buddy-2.18.1, GNOME Media-2.18.0, gnome-mount-0.6, gucharmap-1.10.0, Nautilus CD Burner-2.18.2, Totem-2.18.2. Other additional packages will be updated individually as soon as possible.
[randy] - Updated GNOME-2 additional packages ('Libraries') to GNOME-2.18.3.
[randy] - Updated core GNOME-2 to version 2.18.3. Separated the core packages into 'Platform' and 'Desktop' sections.
[randy] - Updated to ImageMagick-6.3.5-3.
[randy] - Updated Perl Modules: Archive-Tar-1.32, Archive-Zip1.20, Business-ISBN-Data-1.14, Compress-Raw-Zlib-2.005, Compress-Zlib-2.005, Crypt-SSLeay-0.56, Digest-SHA-5.45, ExtUtils-CBuilder-0.19, ExtUtils-ParseXS-2.18, IO-Compress-Base-2.005, Compress-Raw-Bzip2-2.005, IO-Compress-Bzip2-2.005, IO-Compress-Zlib-2.005, IO-Zlib-1.06, LWP5.806, Module-Build-0.2808, Module-Corelist-2.12, Module-Signature-0.55, PAR-Dist-0.24, Pod-Readme-0.09, Test-Base-0.54, Test-Prereq-1.033, version-0.7203, YAML-0.65.
July 24th, 2007
[bdubbs] - Updated to Bind-9.4.1-P1.
[randy] - Updated to SANE Backends-1.0.18.
[dj] - Added Java header path to CPPFLAGS for Graphviz.
July 22nd, 2007
[randy] - Updated to XviD-1.1.3.
[randy] - Updated to ISO Codes-1.2.
[randy] - Updated to Module::Info-0.31.
July 21st, 2007
[randy] - Updated to Metacity-2.18.5
[randy] - Added new package libgnomekbd-2.18.2 to the GNOME Core packages section.
[dnicholson] - Reworked Xorg download links and md5sum files. Added the continue parameter for the large wget downloads.
[randy] - Added a sed and a patch to allow Vorbis-Tools to link against cURL and FLAC respectively. Fixes Trac ticket #2240. Patch to update the book contributed by Ag Hatzimanikas.
[randy] - Updated to libxklavier-3.2.
[randy] - Updated to W3m-0.5.2.
July 20th, 2007
[randy] - Updated to GMime-2.2.10.
[randy] - Updated to libwnck-2.18.3.
[randy] - Updated to GIMP-2.2.17 and GIMP-Help-0.12. No changes have been made yet to support Gutenprint instead of the deprecated Gimp-Print. Those changes will follow after Gutenprint is in the book.
[randy] - Updated to libgsf-1.14.5.
[randy] - Updated to XML-SAX-0.16.
July 19th, 2007
[randy] - Updated to GStreamer Ugly Plug-ins-0.10.6.
[randy] - Updated to libmpeg2-0.4.1.
[randy] - Updated to libdvdread-0.9.7.
[randy] - Added a note to the libdvdcss instructions about an issue that may occur with the LaTeX installation.
[randy] - Updated to LAME-3.97.
[randy] - Updated to libao-0.8.8.
[randy] - Updated to FLAC-1.1.4.
[randy] - Updated to GStreamer Good Plug-ins-0.10.6.
[randy] - Updated to Imlib2-1.4.0.
[randy] - Updated to libdv-1.0.0.
July 18th, 2007
[randy] - Updated to GStreamer Base Plug-ins-0.10.13.
[randy] - Updated to desktop-file-utils-0.13.
[randy] - Updated to shared-mime-info-0.21.
[randy] - Updated to GStreamer-0.10.13.
[randy] - Added an additional sed to the LPRng instructions to correct some bad syntax.
[randy] - Updated to pilot-link-0.12.2.
[randy] - Updated to Nmap-4.20.
July 17th, 2007
[randy] - Updated to Poppler-0.5.4.
[randy] - Updated to Wireshark-0.99.6 (formerly named Ethereal).
[randy] - Updated to libpcap-0.9.6.
[randy] - Updated to Samba-3.0.25b.
[randy] - Updated to Subversion-1.4.4.
July 16th, 2007
[randy] - Clarified the Apache HTTPD dependencies and added a note how to build APR-util with Berkeley DB support.
[randy] - Updated to JUnit-4.3.1.
[randy] - Updated to dvd+rw-tools-7.0.
[randy] - Updated to Xpdf-3.02.
July 15th, 2007
[randy] - Updated to LessTif-0.95.0.
[randy] - Updated to NSS-3.11.7 (includes NSPR-4.6.7).
[randy] - Updated to Firefox-2.0.0.4.
[randy] - Updated to Thunderbird-2.0.0.4.
July 14th, 2007
[randy] - Updated to HAL-0.5.9.1 and HAL Hardware Info-20070618.
[randy] - Added the Qt3 bindings to the D-Bus Bindings page.
July 12th, 2007
[randy] - Updated to Tcsh-6.15.00.
July 11th, 2007
[randy] - Updated to cpio-2.9.
[randy] - Updated to Sendmail-8.14.1.
July 10th, 2007
[dnicholson] - Added information for running the D-Bus testsuite.
[randy] - Updated the K3b and KDE Base instructions to specify that the D-Bus Qt3 Bindings are required if HAL functionality is desired.
[dnicholson] - Added libxcb and its dependencies xcb-proto and libpthread-stubs to the book. Enabled it as a dependency for the Xorg-7 Libraries.
[randy] - Modified the D-Bus dependency in several packages to account for the new D-Bus core and bindings separation.
[randy] - Added the Python Bindings to the D-Bus Bindings page.
July 9th, 2007
[dnicholson] - Updated D-Bus Core to 1.0.2.
[randy] - Created a D-Bus Bindings page and added the GLib bindings. Other D-Bus bindings will be added to the same page as they are developed.
July 8th, 2007
[dnicholson] - Fix a bad commit breaking Xorg-7 libX11 in r6797.
[dnicholson] - Applied patchlevel updates for Xorg-7.2 packages.
[randy] - Updated to CUPS-1.2.11.
[randy] - Updated to PHP-5.2.3.
[randy] - Updated to libexif-0.6.16.
[randy] - Updated to libglade-2.6.1.
[randy] - Updated to cURL-7.16.3.
[randy] - Updated to Libidn-0.6.14.
July 7th, 2007
[manuel] - Updated book rendering framework to use the new LFS-XSL stylesheets.
July 6th, 2007
[randy] - Updated to PostgreSQL-8.2.4.
[randy] - Downgraded OpenLDAP to the stable 2.3.32 version as the download page now properly reflects the versions.
July 5th, 2007
[randy] - Updated to MySQL-5.0.41.
[randy] - Updated Tcl and Tk to 8.4.15.
July 4th, 2007
[randy] - Updated to libxslt-1.1.21.
[dj] - Modified Linux-PAM configuration to use cracklib defaults.
July 3rd, 2007
[randy] - Updated to libxml2-2.6.29.
[randy] - Updated to Python-2.5.1.
[randy] - Updated to Shadow-4.0.18.1, which is the version used in LFS. Also modified the /etc/pam.d/login file as suggested by Jonathan Oksman to strengthen the login security.
[dnicholson] - Fixed an incorrect path for the MesaLib drivers. Reported by Alexander Patrakov.
July 2nd, 2007
[randy] - Updated to Whois-4.7.21.
[randy] - Updated to Expat-2.0.1.
[randy] - Updated to S-Lang-2.1.1.
[randy] - Updated to PCRE-7.2.
[randy] - Updated to libpng-1.2.18.
[randy] - Updated to pkg-config-0.22.
July 1st, 2007
[randy] - Incremented the date of the bootscript entity so a new bootscript tarball will be created (to reflect the changes made to the bootscripts on 20070620).
June 30th, 2007
[randy] - Updated to GTK+-2.10.13.
[randy] - Updated to Pango-1.16.4.
[randy] - Updated to cairo-1.4.10.
[randy] - Updated Inetutils MD5sum as upstream released a new tarball.
[randy] - Updated to GLib-2.12.12.
June 20th, 2007
[dnicholson] - Fixed app-defaults references in xterm. Closes #2362. Reported by laxy.
[dnicholson] - Updated to dhcpcd-3.0.17.
June 15th, 2007
[dnicholson] - Mutt cleanups from Alexander Patrakov and Ag Hatzim.
[dnicholson] - Fixed Firefox and Thunderbird to ensure that libX11 and libXrender are found.
June 13th, 2007
[dj] - Added ksh-2007-03-28
June 12th, 2007
[dnicholson] - Updated to Mutt-1.5.16
June 7th, 2007
[dnicholson] - Changed the Qt /usr install with symlinks to the bin, include and lib directories in /usr/share/qt.
[dnicholson] - Updated to NTP-4.2.4p0.
[dnicholson] - Fixed a broken GLib URL. Reported by Ken Moffat.
[dnicholson] - Removed the optional ctypes dependency from libmusicbrainz since it's included in Python-2.5. Thanks to bambi for the report.
[dnicholson] - Fixed some errors on the X Window System Components page. Reported by Spinal.
May 31st, 2007
[dnicholson] - Changed the xkb output directory for Xorg-Server to match that from XKeyboardConfig. Reported by DJ Lucas.
[dnicholson] - Streamlined the commands for each Xorg section.
[dnicholson] - Commented out the sun video drivers and deprecated modules in the Xorg wget lists and changed the download commands to support the comments.
May 30th, 2007
[dnicholson] - Fixed a broken link on the XFree86 page. Reported by Roland Puntaier.
[dnicholson] - Added a missing expat dependency on the MesaLib page. Reported by DJ Lucas.
May 28th, 2007
[dnicholson] - Changed the XKeyboardConfig intltool dependency to optional and added a required XML::Parser dependency.
May 26th, 2007
[dnicholson] - Removed the /opt globbing from the Bash Shell Startup Files since entries in /opt are handled separately.
May 25th, 2007
[dnicholson] - Updated to libdrm-2.3.0.
[dnicholson] - Added the XKeyboardConfig package, which replaces xkbdata for Xorg-7.
[dnicholson] - Updated to MesaLib-6.5.2.
[dnicholson] - Updated to Xorg-7.2.
May 24th, 2007
[dnicholson] - Various changes were applied to the XFree86 page.
[dnicholson] - Added a version number to the Xorg md5sums file.
[dnicholson] - Revert a mistaken version update to the xf86-input-elographics driver.
[dnicholson] - Removed unnecessary commands for the imake and xorg-cf-files packages.
[dnicholson] - Removed an unnecessary parameter for the xorg-server package.
May 23rd, 2007
[dnicholson] - Removed the unneeded Glibc build fix for XFree86.
May 19th, 2007
[dnicholson] - Fix the installation of the mail extensions to go to the correct directory in Thunderbird.
May 18th, 2007
[dnicholson] - Updated to Thunderbird-2.0.0.0 with Enigmail-0.95.0.
May 13th, 2007
[dnicholson] - Updated to xterm-225 and corrected configure settings. Thanks to kratz00 and fix.
[bdubbs] - Updated to vim-7.1.
May 5th, 2007
[bdubbs] - Corrected md5sum for libdrm-2.0.1.
[bdubbs] - Updated to xine-lib-1.1.6.
[bdubbs] - Updated to Seamonkey-1.1.1.
April 29th, 2007
[dnicholson] - Updated to Fontconfig-2.4.2. Fixes ticket #2134.
April 27th, 2007
[dnicholson] - Updated to Firefox-2.0.0.3. Fixes ticket #2218.
[dnicholson] - Updated to HAL-0.5.9 with hal-info-20070425. Fixes ticket #2213.
[dnicholson] - Updated to FreeType-2.3.4. Fixes ticket #1988.
April 26th, 2007
[randy] - Updated to GnuPG-1.4.7.
April 25th, 2007
[bdubbs] - Added a security patch for Qt and updated description of MySql options for Qt.
[alexander] - Applied cpio-2.7 upstream fixes.
April 21st, 2007
[bdubbs] - Expanded note on building database support into qt.
April 20th, 2007
[randy] - Updated to Graphviz-2.12.
[randy] - Updated to Doxygen-1.5.2.
April 19th, 2007
[randy] - Updated to unixODBC-2.2.12.
[randy] - Updated to libsoup-2.2.100.
[randy] - Updated to startup-notification-0.9.
[randy] - Updated to GOffice-0.2.2.
[randy] - Updated to ESP Ghostscript-8.15.4.
April 18th, 2007
[randy] - Added additional files to the chmod command in the S-Lang instructions.
[randy] - Added a note to run some commands in the OpenSSH instructions as the root user. Thanks to ghylton for the report.
[randy] - Updated to libgsf-1.14.3.
April 17th, 2007
[randy] - Added new Perl Modules to support icon-naming-utils: Tie::IxHash, XML::LibXML, XML::NamespaceSupport, XML::SAX, XML::SAX::Expat and XML::Simple
[randy] - Added new package icon-naming-utils-0.8.2 (required by the GNOME Icon Theme package).
April 16th, 2007
[randy] - Updated to EsounD-0.2.37.
[randy] - Updated the PyGTK dependencies in the HAL instructions.
April 15th, 2007
[djensen] - Updated to librsvg-2.16.1.
[djensen] - Updated to shared-mime-info-0.20.
[randy] - Updated to Qt-3.3.8.
[randy] - Updated to NAS-1.9.
April 14th, 2007
[randy] - Updated to Samba-3.0.24.
April 13th, 2007
[randy] - Updated to Gamin-0.1.8.
[randy] - Updated to desktop-file-utils-0.12.
April 10th, 2007
[randy] - Updated to little cms-1.16.
[randy] - Added the Utah Raster Toolkit as an optional dependency of giflib.
April 9th, 2007
[randy] - Updated to Ruby-1.8.6.
[randy] - Updated to libart_lgpl-2.3.19.
April 4th, 2007
[randy] - Updated the XML and stylesheets to use the 4.5 version of DocBook XML DTD.
March 31st, 2007
[randy] - Updated to PHP-5.2.1.
[randy] - Removed the Ash package as it has been effectively replaced by the Dash package.
March 30th, 2007
[randy] - Updated to hicolor-icon-theme-0.10.
[randy] - Updated to libpcap-0.9.5.
[randy] - Updated to Apache HTTPD-2.2.4.
[randy] - Updated to GTK-Doc-1.8.
[randy] - Updated to Perl Module HTML::Parser-3.56.
[randy] - Updated to Perl modules: Algorithm::Diff-1.1902, Compress::Zlib-2.004, Crypt::SSLeay-0.53, Pod::Simple-3.05, Test::Pod-1.26, Test::Simple-0.70, version-0.71.
[randy] - Added new Perl modules: Compress::Raw::Zlib-2.004, IO::Compress::Base-2.004, IO::Compress::Bzip2-2.004, IO::Compress::Zlib-2.004.
March 28th, 2007
[randy] - Updated to ASpell-0.60.5.
March 27th, 2007
[randy] - Updated to HTML Tidy-cvs_20070326.
March 26th, 2007
[djensen] - Updated to libIDL-0.8.8.
[randy] - Updated to Heirloom Mailx-12.2.
[randy] - Updated to Sendmail-8.14.0.
[randy] - Updated to OpenLDAP-2.3.34.
March 25th, 2007
[djensen] - Updated to Intltool-0.35.5.
[djensen] - Updated to libwnck-2.18.0.
[djensen] - Updated to VTE-2.16.0.
[randy] - Updated to OpenSSH-4.6p1.
[randy] - Updated to OpenSSL-0.9.8e.
[randy] - Updated to cURL-7.16.1.
[randy] - Updated to Stunnel-4.20.
[randy] - Updated to Libidn-0.6.11.
March 24th, 2007
[randy] - Updated to FOP-0.93.
March 23rd, 2007
[dnicholson] - Removed the reference to tinker-term.sh in the Bash Shell Startup Files. Thanks to Jonathan Oksman for the report.
[dnicholson] - Added a patch with upstream fixes for Dash and an optional command for replacing /bin/sh.
[randy] - Updated to Apache Ant-1.7.0.
[randy] - Added new package JUnit-4.1.
March 21st, 2007
[randy] - Updated to MySQL-5.0.37.
[randy] - Modified the Heimdal instructions to rename the Heimdal libss headers and libraries and restore the orginal E2fsprogs files. Also added some documentation installation commands.
March 20th, 2007
[bdubbs] - Updated to cairo-1.4.2. Fixes a severe hang problem and some systems when running checks.
[randy] - Updated to Berkeley DB-4.5.20 to match the version used in LFS.
[randy] - Updated to JDK-1.5.0.11 (source and binary).
March 19th, 2007
[randy] - Updated to cpio-2.7.
March 18th, 2007
[randy] - Updated to NSS-3.11.5 (includes NSPR-4.6.5).
[randy] - Added a warning to the GNOME introduction section, and links to this warning in various GNOME package instructions telling to use the stable version of BLFS to build current GNOME.
[randy] - Updated to GTK+-2.10.11.
[randy] - Updated to ATK-1.18.0.
[randy] - Updated to Pango-1.16.1.
[randy] - Updated to cairo-1.4.0.
[randy] - Updated to GLib-2.12.11.
March 17th, 2007
[randy] - Updated to libxslt-1.1.20.
[randy] - Updated to Python-2.5.
March 16th, 2007
[randy] - Updated to GCC-4.1.2, which matches the version used in LFS.
March 15th, 2007
[randy] - Added the Dash package using a patch provided by Agathoklis Hatzimanikas.
March 13th, 2007
[randy] - Added a note to the Linux-PAM instructions to run the test suite after the package has been installed and minimally configured.
March 8th, 2007
[alexander] - Added Recode-3.6.
March 7th, 2007
[djensen] - Updated to ImageMagick-6.3.3-0, man page sed by alexander.
March 4th, 2007
[dnicholson] - Updated the Docbook SGML & XML DTD packages to version 4.5. Patch from Matthew Burgess.
March 3rd, 2007
[djensen] - Updated to PostgreSQL-8.2.3.
[alexander] - Removed the link to the (dead) libstk site from Xine Libraries page.
February 28th, 2007
[dnicholson] - Made the i18n-fonts commands more explicit on the a2ps page to guard against errors. Thanks to Nathan Coulson for the report.
February 24th, 2007
[dnicholson] - Fixed a dead ftp:// link for Nano. Reported by Daniel Rindt.
February 19th, 2007
[dnicholson] - Fixed the sed needed to run the libxml2 testsuite. Closes #2299. Report from kratz00.
February 16th, 2007
[randy] - Updated to GMP-4.2.1.
[randy] - Updated to libxml2-2.6.27.
[randy] - Fixed a broken documentation installation command in the libpng instructions, thanks to Nathan Coulson for the report.
[randy] - Updated to Inetutils-1.5.
February 15th, 2007
[randy] - Updated to Sysstat-7.0.4.
[randy] - Updated to Shadow-4.0.17.
[randy] - Updated to Linux-PAM-0.99.7.1.
[randy] - Updated to Tk-8.4.14.
[randy] - Updated to Tcl-8.4.14.
[randy] - Updated to S-Lang-2.0.7.
[randy] - Updated to PCRE-7.0.
[randy] - Updated to libpng-1.2.16.
[randy] - Updated to pkg-config-0.21.
February 14th, 2007
[randy] - Released BLFS Version 6.2.0.
February 6th, 2007
[randy] - Updated to CrackLib-2.8.10 (don't merge to the 6.2 branch until 6.2.0 has been released).
February 4th, 2007
[randy] - Removed the obsolete and unmaintained Xorg-6.9 package (do not merge to the 6.2 branch).
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